Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > Unfortunately, ar(1) won't suffice as it cannot create BSD-style > archives. DEB files are BSD ar archives, not GNU ar. Thus, you need > dpkg-source. However, you can drop cp(1) since tar(1) (or gzip(1)) > can do that too :) > [...] > You need a cont

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:47:48AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.0807 +0100]: > > > We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating > > > .deb package (assuming u have all the source files needed). > > > > Depends

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:58:09PM -0800, TIFR students wrote: > We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for > creating .deb package (assuming u have all the source files needed). > We know about control file,changelog,rules,conffile, n scripts like > postrm,prerm,preinst,postins

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:39:09AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, then

Re: RFS[2]: ttf-dejavu -- bistream vera derivate with additional characters

2004-12-30 Thread Peter Rockai (mornfall)
Hello, Unfortunately i cannot sponsor you sofar (T&S pending on my part :p), but i would like to see ttf-dejavu uploaded to kalyxo archive at http://archive.kalyxo.org. If you are interested, please contact me via email or IRC on #kalyxo on irc.freenode.net or jabber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or som

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1110 +0100]: > on it. Basically, you just need a data.tar.gz and a control.tar.gz with > a control file in it (I'm not sure about md5sums). md5sums is not required, but provided by most packages uses debhelper (and others). It's pointless in

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread Frank Küster
TIFR students <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating .deb > package (assuming u have all the source > files needed). > We know about control file,changelog,rules,conffile, n scripts like > postrm,prerm,preinst,postinst. > > We hav

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Jueves, 30 de Diciembre de 2004 10:39, martin f krafft escribió: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, th

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Lunes, 27 de Diciembre de 2004 03:29, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh escribió: > There is no "proper" way. You have two good choices, and one bad choice > IMHO (and I do have a lot of experience on this :P): (...) > 2. Patch the autotools files (*.in, *.am) at build time, make sure all > the buil

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Cameron Patrick
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, then have ./debian/rules:clean target remove t

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > changed, then have ./debian/rules:clean target remove them. Then, > > dpkg-buildpackag

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Lunes, 27 de Diciembre de 2004 03:07, Justin Pryzby escribió: > debuild is the frontend of frontends; try that. Thanks, I will try it. > > - Are not correct the packages that include generated files in the diff? > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > sources. If

Re: How to : convinience package (or virtual package)

2004-12-30 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:32:12PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > We need to know the following. > > How to create a virtual or convinience package for debian web site listing. > > For example a package called 'kdeedu' contains all the educational > > packages like khangman,kalzium etc. > > What

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.0807 +0100]: > > We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating > > .deb package (assuming u have all the source files needed). > > Depends on how you want to create the .deb. Bare minimum is ar, tar, gzip, > and